What is "going off"

Usage examples of "going off".

As if we'd want to tell Mr'Luffy we were going off exploring deserted railway yards watched over by a mad, one-legged fellow who swears there are spook-trains!

In 1906 he wrote a story about a man who splits into an insect and a man, the insect self going off to work and the man staying home in bed.

Therefore it is that I say again to Kennedy frankly that I do not like his going off alone to hunt.

Rustling about the room, his softly-slippered feet making no noise on the floor, he moved like a refined tiger: looked like some enchanted marquis of the impenitently wicked sort, in story, whose periodical change into tiger form was either just going off, or just coming on.

It is boredom and neurasthenia interrupted now and then by small jolts of terror like armaments going off in the night.

He'd half hoped the other travelers would disappear when they boarded, going off to their own spirit quests with some other guide, leaving him and Keir alone.

Lee were going off for the day & To leave The Two children John 10 yrs old & Alice 2 yrs old&nbsp.